A day in ancient Rome; being a revision of Lohr's "Aus dem alten Rom", with numerous illustrations, by Edgar SShumway .. . CALIGULA. PORTION OF PALATINE. 57. PLAN OF A PART OF THE PALATINE HILL 58 CALIGULA AND HIS BRIDGE. The top of the Palatine was united with the lowest part of theforum and the surrounding valley, the so-called Velabrum, by thispassage. This Caligula overarched with his extended buildings;and so it happens that we now, at the right and left, look intorooms large and small which have served for the apartments of theroyal servants and guards. In some the stone beds are still p
A day in ancient Rome; being a revision of Lohr's "Aus dem alten Rom", with numerous illustrations, by Edgar SShumway .. . CALIGULA. PORTION OF PALATINE. 57. PLAN OF A PART OF THE PALATINE HILL 58 CALIGULA AND HIS BRIDGE. The top of the Palatine was united with the lowest part of theforum and the surrounding valley, the so-called Velabrum, by thispassage. This Caligula overarched with his extended buildings;and so it happens that we now, at the right and left, look intorooms large and small which have served for the apartments of theroyal servants and guards. In some the stone beds are still pre-served which are found elsewhere in the Roman guard houses. Inothers all the furniture is wanting; in only a few have the decora-tions of ceiling and walls been partially preserved. If we venture as near the side of the hill as possible, we havejust below us the Temple of Castor and Pollux, and over to thewest the hill on which stands the Capitoline Temple of this northwestern point of the Palatine, Caligula bridgedover the valley which separated him from his brother (!) often he had held conversation with the divinity of
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